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Legend would be John Carmack
and Rockstar John Romero
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Ennis Ray Lynch, Jr. wrote: Rockstar John Romero
One word: "Daikatana"
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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yeah. We should always forget the successes and only remember the failures
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One success (Wolfenstien) and one HUGE success (Doom / Quake), both as part of a damn good team, and then he's off on his own, promising so much. Years late he produces a POS that plays like a dead dog and makes everybody wonder just how much of the big success was really his work...
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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The people who really inspire me are great educators *and* coders like Donald Knuth and Alex Stepanov. I can't really see them in any of the categories offered by this poll.
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Hi,
Agree with you on Alexander Stepanov  (I have his book: Elements of programming)
With friendly greetings, 
Eric Goedhart
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It's kind of worrying how large a proportion of developers responded "self-powered".
I try to learn as much as possible from as many good sources as I can find - all of those have influenced me.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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+1.
IMO "self-powered" doesn't even make sense: At some level you need to refer to documentation or external sources to see how things work at a basic level. Even then, you can't just magically know that super-duper-new-techhy-shiney-thing-named-after-coffee is available, so even for this you can't be self-powered.
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If you read it the way I read it - that's self-powered. You're not waiting for somebody to tell you what to do next, you're pro-actively out looking.
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For some strange reason I was attracted to computers when I was 7 (30 years ago).
At that time my neighbor got his SINCLAIR ZX SPECTRUM+[^] for birthday. He's 6 years older than me and couldn't care less about it.
For me was an amaizing piece of... something I couldn't really understand. Full of letters and numbers and I had never seen anything like that. I was still not sure what it was used for but I liked it... A lot!
I liked it so much that my parents were "forced" to buy me one 1 year later. A Timex Computer 2048[^]
WOW!! That was a bomb!!
Since then I had several other machines and became a professional geek.
I can say that I manged to arrive where I am thanks to the support of my parents but I can't really identify anyone I can say was an inspiration for me.
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Much like me, but I began from loving and programming calculators! I have pretty much programmed *everything* programmable, from microcontrollers, calculators, early computers (I remember VIC20 with 2K of RAM!) and mobile phones to mainframes, clusters and GPUs, and every OS I have found! I learned x86 Assembly language *right after* I learned a little from GWBasic! So yeah, I call myself self-powered
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"Code Complete" by Steve McConnell.
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Linus Torvolds should be Linus Torvalds
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...without BACON and CListCtrl
I'd like to thank them both from the bottom of my heart.
And coffee, of course, but that goes without saying. 
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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See my separate post above...
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I don't have any idea what to say - it's clear you have never met me! 
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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ar ... and the one in Die Hard 4 
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... and the BACON.
It would honestly be a combination of seeing easy money for sitting in the warm and the example of others; mostly people I worked with but a few from the wider [software|care in the] community.
speramus in juniperus
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The survey mentions Marc Clifton and CG, but let's not forget Sacha, Griff, SAKryukov, Pete O'Hanlon...
They've all helped me out on numerous occassions (whether they know it or not).
Thanks guys!
To a lesser extent I guess 'Rockstars'. They're around on the web and I run into some of their articles (or books) once in a while.
Uncle Bob has taught me a thing or two.
And of course I wouldn't be able to do any of this without... Myself!
So I guess I'm my own motivator as well.
It's an OO world.
public class Sander : Lazy<Person>{
public void DoWork(){ throw new NotImplementedException(); }
}
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Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Agree with you. And you have missed few more guys.
Luc Pattyn - Always I liked his great forum answers. Another favorite guy is PO'H.
Nishant Sivakumar - Unfortunately 80% of his articles are outdated today[^], but check out his recent articles, most of them're very good.
I know I have missed few more guys.
thatrajaCode converters | Education Needed
No thanks, I am all stocked up. - Luc Pattyn
When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is - Henry Minute
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Sander Rossel wrote: The survey mentions Marc Clifton and CG, but let's not forget Sacha, Griff, SAKryukov, Pete O'Hanlon...
Agreed, and Josh Smith, .dan.g, to mention 2 more.
Marc
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All good and the replies to your post mention several others, but shouldn't Chris Maunder be at the top of that list? Even though others have posted more articles, answers, etc. it's all (or at least to a very great degree) driven by his efforts here on CP.
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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When I first found CP I found articles, tips and answers by the people mentioned (Chris' articles were too old I guess). Although Chris (and the CP team) provided a platform for those people he did not influence me as a programmer directly. That's not to say I'm not grateful for all he does for the community 
Please, don't be Mad
It's an OO world.
public class Sander : Lazy<Person>{
public void DoWork(){ throw new NotImplementedException(); }
}
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